"Why fear something you know will happen again and again? That's no way to live, and definitely no way to experience life." ---- Norm Bouchard As a young child, I was fortunate to have parents who were extremely alert, active, informed and a bit ahead of their time and generation. Of course, they were timely [...]
"You may be beguiled by a flash or prestige, but without substance there can be no grounding sustainability. Modern culture offers yearly examples of transitory fame. It's simply a matter of time before prestige withers and attention fades. Doing life without concern for developing deep roots of consciousness isn't really living, it's sleepwalking." --- The [...]
"Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool, as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom." --- Charles Haddon Spurgeon [...]
"Thinking and consciousness are not synonymous. Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought." --- Eckhart Tolle And you believed, that with all the years of preponderance in the various thought processes that you have embraced, you were experiencing full consciousness of being. To [...]
"Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror." --- Kahlil Gibran This quote provokes an immense process of thought regarding the fundamental existence of consciousness. Many questions arise involving how and where consciousness began, or when and at what point it may cease. Beginning simply [...]
"Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds." --- Albert Einstein Over the passage of years in our experience, we have either been that individual who continually saw with their eyes and reacted, or observed those who thought with their minds and responded, creatively, instinctively, introspectively and [...]
"The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness." --- Lao Tzu Becoming aware of our individual consciousness may at first blush seem daunting, and for some it may be, although what in the last analysis is the alternative to becoming conscious? Would that involve being numb for the [...]
"If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want and all that is left is compromise." Robert Fritz How many of us have been doing this without even knowing it and for how long? Whether we wish to admit it or not, we are [...]
"Tell me and I forget, teach me and I remember, involve me and I learn." ---- Benjamin Franklin We live in a time of expedience, dis-assimilation, disposal, lack of privacy, and a consistency of conflated in-congruence. It appears almost surreal to experience our life's journey . . . objectively. And yet, that is exactly what [...]
"Like fish who do not know they swim in water, we are seldom aware of the atmosphere of the times through which we move, how strange and singular they are." --- Thomas Cahill As we move through our lives the quote above refers . . . "like fish who do not know they swim in [...]